Bias, hot touts, Twinspires, clockers, workouts - be cursed! All nonsense I tell ya! We miss Chuckles!

Good one for sure. Had all the pace in the BC he won; mortal lock for the Sartin crowd and I paid dearly for not using him. Was like a machine for about 4 years. Just throw a saddle on him and he would run anywhere. As for Ernie P, well as my mother once said, if you don\'t have something nice to say about someone, come sit by me.

Wow. Truly amazing. Has anything even approaching this happened in the TB world?

This one is so upside down, Mike Battaglia, for once in his life, did not pick the favorite.

Let the Philistinism begin.

What does one do with a hoss from a move up trainer to a move up trainer?

We\'ll see in about 5 mins. KEE 8th, Mullins to Catalano...........

Been a few years but there was a gas station on Versailles west of KEE that sells TG. Have fun. The joint will be mobbed and please avoid those weird Reuben sandwiches. Try Furlongs for dinner.

Bridge contemplator maybe. Total WPS pool only about $77k and no boxcars in the show column. Just a promising apprentice learning the ropes.

10th race. Suyeta at 40:1! Look again. Turn-back and salty ones never on poly. HFS. Thanks Jerry, et al.

CCCC-rushed it.

Use Mast Track...............

Race 3 .........#2 with monster # and rest, fans betting BB like the race is over. Somehow, I don\'t think I made the right choice here with 2-3 but couldn\'t use #7 with gun to my head.

miff Wrote:
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> Blind,
>
> You are on a slippery slope re Lukas,imo. Horses
> do not present breakdown on a piece of paper,it\'s
> mainly random.JB has spotted a few in his crystal
> ball,however.These horses are under scrutiny of
> trained vets and horsemen on a daily basis.
> Sometimes trainers will press down too much on a
> young horse and ruin it.Some trainers closely
> monitor TG/RAGS figs and will back off on a horse
> if the figs are too fast, regardless of whether
> the horse seems tired or not.
>
> Jerkens/Lukas and and many others believe that you
> run a horse who is doing well regardless of
> spacing or his last figure.You cannot keep a horse
> razor sharp indefinitely and letting one
> down(resting) does not guarantee a return to sharp
> form.I feel you have to be real careful of huge
> gut wrenching efforts which are too fast for the
> current physical attributes of the young horse.
>
> Most horses present fatigue when they ran too hard
> and need extra time to recover. It\'s the ones that
> come out \"great\" but are still sitting on an
> unexpected implosion.
>
>
> Mike

M-

The slope is firm. I don\'t think I over-generalized this at all, and quite to the contrary, I was referring to many 2-year-olds under his tutelage that were spotted aggressively on short rest, got hurt and never ran again.

Proud Citizen would be an example of what I think you are referring to and I would not use that to illustrate my point. That kind of stuff just happens.

Good luck.
M

Praising with faint damn......In using DWL\'s \"run-em while they\'re good\" statement, BB pretty much shows the value of sheet-maker\'s product. How many expensive, talented young horses did Lukas break down?

LOL............While you are all doing THIS, JB\'s product has been DESTROYING a very well-known Southern California race track. H F S>>>>>>>>>>>>

Funny. Like a (Chuckles_The) Clown. If the 7 is anywhere near M/L, I will hammer.